Best of luck with all the prep! That looks like a race you gotta be in shape for!! Physical prep is going to be just as important, if not more, than riding prep.

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Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind my asking, what do you think the whole package will end up costing? It's on my bucket list to sign up, travel over there, rent a bike, and then see what happens.

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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure

No bike does everything perfectly. In fact, no bike does anything until someone gets on it to ride.

If you get to Bucharest it's rather simple afterwards.
Easiest thing to do is go to Autogara Militari and then get on a bus to Sibiu. The buses usually takes about 4-5 hours to get to Sibiu. They leave every hour or half an hour, not exactly sure right now. Price was about 30 lei if I remember correctly (7 Euros ).
Another option is to take the train, but this is a considerrably longer journey, and last year they had atleast another hour of delay.
When you are at the airport easiest thing to do would be to get a taxi to take u guys there, a few things to remember is that usually taxis cost around 1.40 lei/km. The ones at ther airport are 3 times more expensive and they sometimes try to rip off foreigners....(this still ain't crazy expensive at around 1 euro/km). Anyway, best thing to do is to go to Departures (small ariport, not a long walk) and wait there for a taxi coming from the city (shouldn't take longer then 4-5 minutes).

I would try land in Sibui, we also did the Buckarest thing and rented a car.

Its a long drive to Sibui 250km takes about 4 hours, its quite scenic drive but alot of traffic on that road.

We rented from TCX , the guys really looked after us well and was good value.
Try go a few days early and go on an outride, The tcx guys (TEO) will help you , there is great riding there.

My only downside was i rented a Husaberg 350, i would have prefered a 2 stroke cause thats wat i ride at home.
I also knocked myself out in the prologue and had a long trip to the hospital (CT scan, ecg, ultra-spound, they really wasted my time)

Practice you down hills in the slippery mud, there are alot of those really steep. There was one downhill (highway to Hell) i walked my bike downhill for almost an hour in the rain

This sounds awesome. My inlaws live in Oradea, Romania and I have always wanted to try to set up our trip so I can cruise down to Sibiu and at least watch the Prologue. It is beautiful over there.

I know it is not the same to go to Oradea as Sibiu but we generally fly into Budapest, Hungary and then take a train over to Oradea. Once when we were over there, we got some round trip tickets from Timisora to Frankfurt and back and only used one half of them to get to Frankfurt and then flew home from there. Those tickets were only 99 Euros per person.

Last summer when we were visiting, I drove around a bit to go out for some river rafting and other tourist stuff and it was crazy! I thought I was going to die on the road. There is not a very good concept of defensive driving there. It is more like offensive driving! And then there is the differences in speeds. Most people pay absolutely no attention to the speed limit so they are pretty much driving as fast as their Dacia can go. Contrast that to the horse drawn carts rolling down the highway. It is nuts!

I am not sure how long the train ride is from Bucharest to Sibiu but I do know that it was a painful 12 hour ride from Oradea to Bucharest.

Keep an eye on your stuff. I always try to keep my hand on my bag. Most people there are awesome but some are not.